I think I’ve got the cleaning bug

What an awful night sleep I had last night, or didn’t have, as the case may be. So much for taking my tablets earlier so that they kicked in and made me tired. Today’s plans have been well and truly scuppered by the weather. I had planned on taking G to the Metrocentre as she is wanting to buy some clothes from Jayne Austin, but since last night, it has done nothing but snow. According to the forecast, it is going to snow all day into tonight. When I got up, there was two or three inches of snow already on the ground. Considering G has had a bad chesty cough, and is taking antibiotics, I decided it’s best not to drag her out in the cold.
Instead of going out, I set about finishing off reinstalling the updates and anti virus on G’s laptop. She seemed happy that she could go on Facebook on a big screen rather than on her iPad mini. I think the idea is eventually to take it to G’s grandparents and leave it there. We will hopefully teach them how to use the internet and do their banking online, look for holidays and order their car tax etc. They have never used a computer before so it is completely new to them. It will be like teaching an Ardvark how to do open heart surgery. I reckon the Ardvark wont get as stressed as the grandparents will. When G ( who is only 12 ) demonstrated the internet when they had broadband installed a few months back, they were absolutely amazed, as if she had done something magical that you would expect Harry Potter to do, like turning a rock into a pony or something. I’m sure they think, if you press the wrong button at the wrong time, the world will implode or something just as horrendous. After succeeding ( eventually ) on the reinstall, I set about doing the rest of the dreaded shredding. There wasn’t much left, or so it seemed. While doing the shredding, I was also in a Google+ hangout with my good friends Marc ( marccorn.co.uk ) and Carl ( lifeofcarl.co.uk ). Its always nice to have a hangout with all 3 of us on at the same time. We get along really well and have such a good laugh. Marc joked on and called us the 3 musketeers. I quite like the sound of that. I hope it sticks. After about an hour of shredding, the pile din’t seem to get any smaller. It got to the point where I thought I was trying to shred the contents of Mary Poppin’s carpet bag. You know the one. The one where she pulls mirror’s and coat stands etc out of it. The pile felt never ending. Never ending to the point where my shredder decided it had had enough and cut out. When it decides to have a huff like this and spits its dummy out, the only option is to unplug it and leave it for half an hour, like a misbehaving child that has been sent to the naughty step. After we had all had our tea, I switch the shredder back on, only this time D took over and did the remaining shredding. Eventually we got to the end. Thank the lord.
Now you would think that as it was about half 6 at night, we would just settle down to watch the normal Saturday trash TV ( as I call it ), but no, not a hope. I don’t know what it is at the moment, but I seem to have gotten the cleaning bug since our lovely new wallpaper was put up. I’m wanting to sort loads of stuff out that we have put off for years. This time was the case of the corner cupboard under the kitchen bench where pans are kept. I will rephrase that. Where pans should be kept, but in reality, its pans, baking trays, thermos mugs, deep fat fryers, in fact anything that needed at some point to be hidden out of view, was stuffed in this cupboard. After we finished being ruthless and binning loads of stuff we have not used in years, the cupboard looks really empty. I was really happy that for once, we can go in there and not be engulfed in a landslide of kitchen appliances and utensils. I was so happy, that as soon as D sat down for a rest, I made the decision to start on another cupboard as I was sick of unused tuppaware boxes, that have long lost their lids. So away we went again. Going mad and binning absolutely loads of tines, and jars of out of date herbs and spices, tuppaware, opened and half used jars of beetroot and pickled onions. Now after this cupboard, we didn’t do any more. That was it for the night. I think if I had started pulling another cupboard out all over the kitchen floor, I wouldn’t be here to type this blog post. I would of been beaten to death with the nearest pan, with the added possibility of the half used jar of beetroot being inserted somewhere it shouldn’t be.
D then sat on the sofa to watch some TV, while I decided the time was as good as any to start doing my finances on the new spreadsheet Marc sent me, so that I can keep a check on my incomings and outgoings. I have never done this type of thing on a long term basis before so I am going to have to be strict with myself. It took me a while, making sure all the data I put in was correct.
One thing I have noticed recently, is that something has changed with D and myself in the last couple of weeks. I don’t know what it is, but we have, all of a sudden, changed the way are doing everything. Like since the wallpapering, I am always looking for the slightest bit of rubbish left lying around or cups left out etc etc, and also we are now, for some reason more focussed on our money and what we are spending. Its strange. Its like a switch has been flicked. I’m not complaining at all. I’m quite enjoying it. There has been a couple of occasions where I have caught D having a giggle at me for looking around to make sure everything is tidy. I’m not so sure G like the new me, as I’m always asking her to put stuff away. She is your normal kid, whereas she leaves a trail of cups and plates and whatever in her wake, like a mini whirlwind has just went through the house.
D has fell asleep on the settee and is snoring peacefully in her sleep while I am left with 90’s music playing on the ‘Magic” music channel that she put on. She could of at least made it 80’s music. That would of been more preferable.

Joke of the day:

A cowboy walks into a bar wearing a coconut filled chocolate bar instead of a hat.
“Whats wrong with him”? asked the barman to one of the regulars.
The regular replied ‘Oh he’s got a bounty on his head”

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The time has come where I must head of to my bed now as I can feel my eyeslids getting heavier and heavier. Lets hope that tonight is the night I get some sleep. I have doubled up on the tablets tonight in a desperate attempt get some sleep.
P.s. A great song has just come on the TV. Its MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This. I love the dancing on the video. Those 80’s style clothes are fantastic. God, I remember when I used to go out drinking wearing dress jacket complete with padded shoulders and chino’s. I thought I was the bee’s knees. Apparently chino’s are coming back in. I do hope so. I used to love wearing chino’s. Really comfy and smart trousers, they were.